Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 16:03:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Rob McIntyre <rob@perihelion.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fsck errors: partially allocated inodes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9807301602280.17630-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199807300838.JAA28894@betty.perihelion.co.uk>
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On Thu, 30 Jul 1998, Rob McIntyre wrote: > To my potential saviour, > > I am trying to debug a version of newfs that has been ported to the > Helios operating system. > After running newfs on the ide device, I get spurious errors including > the following: > > partially allocated inode = 0x68 > > unknown file type inode = 0x9a > > in blkerror > > The errors seem to come in blocks of partially allocated inodes > followed by an arbitrary amount of unknown file types messages. > > I have experimented useing various disk layouts and still the errors > occcur in the same place on the ide disk. Would't that suggest to you that there's a problem with the disk itself? > I would be grateful for any advice on the true meaning of these errors > and for debugging newfs and fsck which is not a very pleasent task > with 214MB devices. If you think it's unpleasant with 214MB, try an 8 gig array. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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